Composition Licence: This MP3 (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See
Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 (in this case 1801) are now in the public domain.
This file is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris), in this case Ludwig von Beethoven (17 December 1770 â 26 March 1827), and that most commonly runs for a period of 50 to 70 years from December 31st of that year.
Performance Licence: This work has been released into the public domain by its author,
Paul Pitman at musopen.com
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